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No. 67.

MR. H. J. MACKINDER to SIR C. P. LUCAS.

(Received 1 February, 1909.) [Answered by No. 69.]

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SIR,

No. 64.

VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE.

Downing Street, 21 January, 1909.

I BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of January,* and to inform you that I have noted your request to be supplied with a copy of the book of lectures on the Empire and a set of slides as soon as they are ready for issue.

I would explain that, for the purposes of the work of the Committee on Visual Instruction, the British Possessions are being divided into groups, each of which will form the subject of a separate book of lectures with accompanying slides.

It is expected that three or four years will be required to cover the whole of the Empire, and it is hoped that the first issue, which will deal mainly with India, will be ready for publication in the coming summer.

Your letter will be laid before my Committee, but it is anticipated that the lectures and slides will be on sale similarly to the lectures on the United Kingdom, of which a prospectus is enclosed.

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SIR,

Yours truly,

W. E. NOALL,

Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee.

No. 65. CYPRUS.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

(Miscellaneous.)

[See No. 89.]

Downing Street, 22 January, 1909.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 4, of the 6th of January,t and to inform you that a set of prints of the photographs taken by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher in Cyprus is in course of preparation, and will be sent to you as soon as possible.

I have, &c.,

CREWE.

MY DEAR LUCAS,

2, Tanfield Court, Temple,

London, E.C., 1 February, 1909.

I SEND herewith for your signature Waterlow's bill* in connection with the British re-issue of the Indian Edition. The charge is to be paid from the Eastern Colonies Fund. In connection with this re-issue I also obtained from the Crown Agents an advance of £24 4s., being £23 14s. for postage and 10s. for addressing a part of the envelopes for the pamphlets. Receipts for this sum of £24 4s. have already been sent to the Crown Agents.

It will be seen from Waterlow's bill and from this statement that the whole cost of the British re-issue has been £76 18s. 4d., and that of this sum, £46 18s. 4d. was for advertisement of the issue, including the copies for review. We might, of course, have undertaken a smaller amount of advertisement, but at a greater proportionate cost. You were away and I could not consult you. I trust, how- ever, that you will agree with me that, having spent £30 (the cost of printing the new edition) in the hope of a profit for the benefit of the Eastern Colonies Fund, it was best not to spoil the ship by undue economy of tar.

We have sent a copy of the pamphlet to every member of the education autho- rities in the counties and county boroughs of England and Wales, to the secretaries of the non-county borough authorities, to every member of the Headmasters' Con- ference, to all the headmistresses of Girls' Public Schools, to all clerks of Scottish School Boards, secretaries of Provincial Committees for the Training of Teachers, and correspondents of recognised secondary schools in Scotland, and to every person in a file of addresses very kindly lent to us by Professor Sadler. I communicated with Mr. Fletcher, of the Board of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Ireland. He hardly thinks that matters are sufficiently advanced in Ireland for it to be worth our while to communicate extensively with the local authorities there, but he pro- poses to see me when he is next in London. The total number of persons who have received copies of the pamphlet containing the introductory matter of the lectures is 5,683, and the number of copies of the lectures themselves sent out for review is 83.

The greater part of what here report was decided between us at our meeting just before you went to the West Indies. I trust that you will approve what I did in your absence. You will remember that the arrangements for this re-issue were left in our hands by the Committee. Incidentally, of course, we have made generally known the work we are doing in the overseas dominions.

Yours, &c.,

H. J. MACKINDER.

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No. 66.

THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to THE VICTORIA LEAGUE.

Downing Street, 27 January, 1909. DEAR MADAM,

WITH reference to the last paragraph of my letter of the 17th of July last, I am glad to inform you that the edition of the lantern lectures on the United Kingdom prepared for use in India by Mr. Mackinder has been adapted for use in this country, and is now on sale, together with the accompanying slides.

I enclose a copy of the book and of a prospectus for your information.

Miss Percy Taylor,

Education Sub-Committee,

Victoria League.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

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No. 68.

WEIHAIWEI.

THE COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 4 February, 1909.) [Answered by No. 74.]

(No. 35.)

MY LORD,

Government House, Port Edward, Weihaiwei,

23 December, 1908.

WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, marked Miscellaneous of the 10th July last, regarding the preparation of illustrated lectures on the Colonies for use in the schools in the United Kingdom, I have the honour to inform you that Mr. Fisher, who has been appointed for the purpose of obtaining sketches and photo- graphs suitable for lantern slides for those lectures, arrived here on the 21st of November and left on the 27th of that month.

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